Last weekend from the 20th to the 23rd of June, 16 teams from around the world competed in the Rocket League Championship Major 2 at London’s Copper Box Arena for a $75K grand prize. With the esports tournament being operated by Danish organizer BLAST, the event successfully drummed up hype for fast-paced Rocket League gameplay. Ultimately, the American team G2 Stride took home the win – but that’s far from the end of the story.
Rocket League esports is responsible for a few of the events that are truly global – a status that it potentially holds due to its similarity to football itself (as supported by the global popularity of Kings League). The game has been making great strides, setting itself apart from the majority of esports events that are either shooters or MOBAs and even cracking into the top 10 PS5 games by viewership on live-streaming platforms.
As such, it’s worth looking at the performance of this most recent Rocket League event and which co-streamers have been supporting the competition on live streaming.
RLCS Major 2 Viewership is Boosted by French Fans
The RLCS Major 2 had a strong showing on live-streaming platforms. Over just four days of coverage, the RLCS Major brought in 2.6M hours watched with a massive peak viewership of just under 300K. This performance is on par with Rocket League’s historical viewership as previously analyzed. To encourage viewership for the event, developer Psyonix held a number of in-game loot giveaways to drive viewers onto channels. This may also explain why co-streaming was particularly high for the event, with a massive 46% of hours watched (1.2M) coming from co-streamers alone.
Looking at the co-streamers, it’s obvious that French-speaking fans turned out in droves for the RLCS Major 2. The top two channels covering the RLCS Major 2 were both French channels, with RocketBaguette and Gotaga bringing in 348K and 234K hours watched, respectively. Gotaga is one of the owners of the very popular French team Gentle Mates Alpine, whom fans rallied behind as Karmine Corp (headed by president Kamet0) wasn’t present at this year’s event. AlphaKep, meanwhile, was the top American co-streamer with 122K hours watched – almost half that of Gotaga’s.
The next Rocket League esports events are the Esports World Cup 2024 in August and RLCS 2024 World Championship in September, the latter of which G2 Stride earned points towards entering by winning this event. But excitingly, FIFA also announced the first-ever Rocket League national competition under the FIFAe banner that would be taking place this year. Stream Hatchet will be tuning in to see how this new competition performs on live streaming.
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